Accurate press-profiled colour proofing
Colour-accurate proofs, on time, every time.
In the initial stages of building a colour-accurate proofing workflow, we supply a test file for our print clientelle to run through their press to standard ink weights and density measurements. This "finger print" tells us exactly how that press is behaving, and gives also gives us an accurate measurement of it's colour gamut. The colour gamut of a printing press is a description of the range of colours which it can achieve using the standard 4 colour process printing inks. Every printing press has it's own colour gamut and characteristics. Even supposedly identical presses from the same manufacturer will differ, this is why fingerprinting and subsequent ICC profiling is currently the only way to achieve consistent, press-specific colour proofs.

Following on from the fingerprint trials, we take the printed sheets and read these into a colour management system. This produces an ICC profile, which is then fed into our proofing workflow. The colour gamut and primary inks colours of the inkjet proofing device are then altered "on the fly" to that of the printing press, giving a true representation of the final printed document. We can also fingerprint printing presses on different printing stocks, so if a client has a press with it's own unique dot gain characterisitics, printing on plastic, we can replicate that too.

In addition, we can also supply Digital Cromalin Proofs, to certified Euroscale Standard, on standard Cromalin paper stock.
Using transfer intermediates, we can also provide this service onto folding box board and plastic substrates.

For more information regarding our colour proofing or profiling services, please give us a call on 01773 538857, or email us at studio@final-films.com